Ice box



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A. BREEN ICE Box Filed Dec. 17, 1921 /2 fjw/ /0- /2 IIIIILIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIA VlIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII l Z I INVENTOR.

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1' Application led December 17, 1921. Serial No. 523,071.

To all whom t mag/concern:

Be it known thatI, ANNA BREEN, a'citi- My invention relates to an improvement in ice-boxes. v Y

This invention is especially devised for, Yand adapted to use on vehicles, such as automobiles, it being designed to rest upon the running-board. 1 The purpose is to make provision for carrying ice as well as perishable food, and Yin addition to this it provides drinking-water, and its top is convertible into a table, which may be utilized in any way.

The invention vconsists in a box having several compartments,`one for ice, and the others for food, with means of communication between them to permit theV cold air to circulate through the food compartments, a tank into which the water from the melting ice drips, the bottom of the ice compartment being perforated to allow this water to splash back and forth against the ice with the motion of the vehicle, and to thereby assist in keeping the food.compartments at a low temperature at all times, covers, and (if desired) an extension to form with them a-table. i' Y In the accompanying drawings VF ig. -l is a front view.;

Fig. 2 is aV longitudinal section; l

Fig. 3 is a plan view with the covers removed; Y

Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section.

A, represents the box divided preferably into an -ice compartment l, and two food compartments 2 on either side thereof.;

A water tank 3 occupies the entire bottom, and is preferably made of galvanized iron or other meta-l, and the portion which extends beneath the .ice compartment lv has perforations 4. This compartment is also y preferablyA lined with metal, and the melting ice drips through the perforations into the water tank, and with the motion of the ve-v hicle the water is splashed up and down through the perforations againstV the ice,

thus keeping it at all times very cold, asl

well 'as the food compartments 2, 2.

A faucet 6 is provided for drawing off the drinking-water.v Walls 7 maybe erected a Aslight distance-from the dividing partition between the compartments, and the space 8 Atherebetween may be filled, if desired, with insulating material, although this is not essential. Y y

Hingechor otherwise secured to the top, are covers or lids 9, of which there is one for each compartment ,and hinged to oneedge'of these covers preferably is theV extensiontable 10, which normally is folded over the top of the lids or covers, as shown in Figs.y

l and Q; but when used as an extensionleaf for a table, it vis folded out (as shown in Fig. 4) it being connected to the lid or cover by hinges ll and brace 12 beneath the extensiontable supports it when in its extended position as shown in Fig. 4. A Y

This invention provides a much `needed cooler for water and food for the-automo-- bilist. lt is simple, compact, and designed to fit the running-board. lt is not only efy so.A

into compartments, a water tank extending beneath and forming the bottom of the several compartments thereof, the central com- Y partment being an ice compartment and having a reticulated bottom to `supportthe ice ad allow the Water to draininto the tank, and the waterin turn from the tank to splash into the ice compartment, whereby the ends of the Vwater tank form a cooling medium for 'the different compartments of the box.

n ANNA BREEN." 

